I think the list of 'stupid things you've done on fruit machines' would be inundated with 'I screwed up a skill shot for jackpot etc', 'declined a cashpot offer as I hastily bashed no deal no deal no deal' (a good friend of mine shall remain nameless having made this error plenty of times), I want to hear the stupidest thing you've seen a fruit do.

Back in the £25 era, I remember going hi on a 1, only for it to roll 1 again and it said game over. I think the machines in question were those Barcrest hi-lo type games like Horn of Plenty, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Bling King Crazy etc.

Also, Quick on the Draw (Vivid) had a habit of rolling 11 on your first move, right onto the game over square!

I once spun away from a jackpot offer on super shots of East Wing West Wing £70 as I was playing too quickly. Cash meter went up to £20 and it was giving super deal. Oh well I thought, it's a jackpot board, it'll land elsewhere. Nope. Killed me and didn't come back.

Other strange happenings on these types of machine, I've had an Access All Alexes just naturally land up mega step to nearest which was jackpot. Naturally I took it but I did think how unBellfruitish it was to do that. It killed off deal as well.
They can also get in a strange mood with the bust whereby the message can't be 'cash or bust will be bust'. In fact every bust you press is something roughly equivalent to the board value.

Early red IM machines I've actually had a IM board and the machines spun the reel to lose!! Probably had a add again to land on lose.
Very rare but three time hold on "X,s" for a pound on party time costng you 90p so 10p up or even worse the same hold on double decker this time costing £1.50 p for a quid.
Reels spin in jackpot but doesn't give/pay it.

I've had a Adams family go higher than a 11 on a flashing board kill me. Was a bit like.... Okay
I own up to being the one that's declined a cash pot for Sebastian on a deal game

When I collected my £1.40 bank on a body match and it dumped a full float on me haha

And when a stir crazy just every board on £5 was invincible / going to the end and repeating to £30+ Emptied

When a deadish Gold mine (dream factory clone) got itself in a pickle and we trapped it for a mega streak off the shots decided to lock up and freeze because it realised its mistake...

I've heard of many stories of being on a 1 and for jackpot going higher and it goes to a 1 and kills you

My mate was also forcing out a fiddle a fortune (reflex) and was going higher and lower on some 1s and 12s on the board and that was also killing him. I don't know what made him force it in the first place.

(01-11-2016, 05:48 PM)Boydie Wrote: I've had a Adams family go higher than a 11 on a flashing board kill me. Was a bit like.... Okay
I own up to being the one that's declined a cash pot for Sebastian on a deal game

When I collected my £1.40 bank on a body match and it dumped a full float on me haha

And when a stir crazy just every board on £5 was invincible / going to the end and repeating to £30+ Emptied

When a deadish Gold mine (dream factory clone) got itself in a pickle and we trapped it for a mega streak off the shots decided to lock up and freeze because it realised its mistake...

I've heard of many stories of being on a 1 and for jackpot going higher and it goes to a 1 and kills you

My mate was also forcing out a fiddle a fortune (reflex) and was going higher and lower on some 1s and 12s on the board and that was also killing him. I don't know what made him force it in the first place.

I suspect the number reel on the reflex was out of line if it was doing that as going lower than a 12 cannot kill on that particular machine.